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Ferrari boys drive us all to distraction
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/05/2014
» The Ferrari boys have made our blood boil. Cruising Bangkok’s streets in their super-steeds, the two kids with rich dads, speaking in faux English accents, expound their beliefs on how the country is being ruined and how it should be run, how immoral the Thaksin regime is and how their friendship, forged in battle, is stronger than steel, or something like that. It sounded like they rehearsed the script in front of a mirror for days, for they were so happy to hear the sound of their own voices, to show the world how great it is to be themselves.
True spirit of free press
News, Published on 03/05/2014
» The United Nations, media organisations and rights groups will send out messages in support of freedom of expression and freedom of the press to mark the annual celebration of World Press Freedom Day today.
Press Myanmar to protect the Rohingya
News, Published on 05/04/2014
» Last April, I joined Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) in documenting a massacre of Muslim students and teachers at a boarding school in Meiktila, located in central Myanmar. After hiding from marauding bands all night, a desperate group of about 150 men, women, and children was told they would be escorted to police vehicles and taken to safety. Instead, police led them through a gauntlet of Buddhists — monks among them — who bludgeoned, stabbed, beheaded, and immolated scores of them, while crowds of onlookers clapped and shouted "Kill the Kalars" (a derogatory term for Muslims). Local officials and armed policemen stood on a nearby ridge and watched as dozens were killed. The sheer impunity with which community leaders, law enforcement, and the local citizens participated in this horrific slaughter haunts me to this day.
The true story of unrest lies beyond mainstream media
News, Supapohn Kanwerayotin, Published on 28/01/2014
» Many friends and ex-journalist colleagues of mine have been complaining about Thai mainstream and Western media coverage of the ongoing political conflict. Indeed it is frustrating to see the protests often portrayed exclusively as unelected forces attempting to undermine an elected government trying to hold an election, and that election symbolise the universal expression of formal democracy.
Thailand needs to grow up and find its way in the world
News, Songkran Grachangnetara, Published on 07/09/2013
» The best gift my parents gave me, in particular my father, was his insistence that I be educated in Britain; England to be precise. I guess being sent to England at a young age has become part of our long family tradition, and although it does have some drawbacks, I believe the pros far outweigh the cons.
Snowden has no island, nor Quasimodo, to help him
News, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 08/07/2013
» 'Sanctuary! Sanctuary!" is the pathetic cry of the title character, played by Charles Laughton in the1939 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when he frees the heroine from the hangman's noose and whisks her into the safety of sanctuary inside the cathedral, just in the nick of time.
12 more new laws to really improve Thailand
News, Songkran Grachangnetara, Published on 04/06/2013
» These are some new laws I think Thailand would benefit from. Most regular readers will recognise this as a sequel to my previous articles under the same title.
Flawed airport exposed by 'Great Escape'
News, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 03/06/2013
» Suvarnabhumi airport lives up to its slogan, the ''Airport of Smiles''. At least for Carlo Konstantin Kohl. The German fugitive showed Thai authorities how friendly Suvarnabhumi is when passengers want to leave the airport without the bother of having to wait in immigration lanes or mingling among the long lines of air travellers passing through the place.
Fight goes on for freedom of speech across all media
News, Published on 03/05/2013
» Internet usage is increasing and allowing people more access to information and possibilities for expression in every country of Southeast Asia. Traditional media has not always played this role, often remaining controlled and sometimes censored.
Hold negligent to account
News, Published on 12/01/2013
» I laud the Supreme Administrative Court for ordering the Pollution Control Department (PCD) to pay almost 4 million baht to 22 Karen villagers over the lead contamination of Klitty Creek.